**This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips**

Learn new skills needed to capture the fascinating world of small nature subjects close up, using tools such as macro lenses, bellows attachments, telephoto lenses with extension tubes, and flash. You need not own this equipment at the start. Explore techniques needed to photograph small subjects from wildflowers to flying insects, and practice these newly learned skills on field trips (included).

Prerequisite: Digital Photo I or similar experience

Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to writers of all experience levels, as every writer’s voice is unique. levels as your writing is unique to you. Students will write together and share their work through supportive group readings and discussion designed to strengthen their writing. Listening to others’ work also helps strengthen your own writing. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week includes writing exercises and constructive, positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.

Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to writers of all experience levels, as every writer’s voice is unique. levels as your writing is unique to you. Students will write together and share their work through supportive group readings and discussion designed to strengthen their writing. Listening to others’ work also helps strengthen your own writing. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week includes writing exercises and constructive, positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.

When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.

**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**

Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.

**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**

Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.

An exciting new twist to a classical drawing technique is colored pencil. Adding thin glaze-like layers of colored pencil to a carefully constructed drawing can produce surprising results. A step-by-step breakdown of the process will gain understanding of color, value structure, and traditional drawing methods.